Four Electric Trucks Go Head To Head Towing Over The Rockies

In some recent videos, we’ve seen Out of Spec pit a Cybertruck, a Rivian R1T, a Silverado EV, and an F-150 Lightning against each other in races across the country , range to dead testing, and more. Now, the channel has given the four trucks a fairly harsh test: towing Model 3s from Denver to Grand Junction and back to Denver. This means pulling the load over the Rocky Mountains twice!

Strengths the F-150 Lightning has are NACS access, a flat charging curve out to 80%, and software that’s good at compensating for towing. The Rivian has four motors and the large battery pack, and the team has a lot of experience towing with it. It also has a front charging port that’s good for towing without needing to unhook. The Silverado EV has a massive battery pack, and still predicts 300 miles of range predicted with the ~6000 lb load.

At the time of the tunnel, all of the trucks seemed to be doing pretty well, and getting similar efficiency. All of the vehicles were at about 50%, except for the Silverado that still had almost 70%. But, they were all about to face some serious regenerative braking challenges after heating up on that steep climb.

The overall average for Grand Junction for the Silverado was 1.2 miles/kWh and it handily made it to the Electrify America station in Grand Junction while everyone else was picking up charges to get as far as the turnaround point. He dropped the trailer and then found an open station, charged on the first try, and got almost the full 350 kW that the truck could get.

By the end, the Silverado won, the Rivian and the Lightning performed very similarly, and the Cybertruck took the longest. Performance on regenerative braking was another big thing that set the trucks apart.If you want some data from the trip, the team put a podcast together with all of the numbers analyzed after the trip.

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